Raffles Hotel is a luxury hotel at 1 Beach Road in Singapore, established by the Armenian Sarkies brothers in 1887 and named for the British colonial official Stamford Raffles, the founder of modern Singapore. Designed by the architect Regent Alfred John Bidwell of the firm Swan and Maclaren, the hotel grew from a ten-room bungalow into a landmark of colonial architecture, and in 1899 it became the first hotel in the region fitted with electric lighting. Renamed the Syonan Ryokan during the Japanese occupation of Singapore from 1942 to 1945, the hotel underwent a 160 million dollar restoration between 1989 and 1991 and a further renovation completed in 2019, and it was designated a National Monument of Singapore in 1987. Its Long Bar is credited as the birthplace of the Singapore Sling cocktail, invented there by the bartender Ngiam Tong Boon.
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Building TypeSourced to the subject's own account LocationSourced to the subject's own account1 Beach Road, Singapore 189673 1 Completed YearSourced to the subject's own account Classification
Standing StatusSourced to the subject's own account Building Type
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Entity-backed identity for the building-type enum value this building already carries, resolved to an architecture concept by an explicit value-to-entity map (phase 3 bucket conversion, docs\design_entity_backed_browse_buckets_20260928.md). The building-type fact itself stays on the building unchanged.
In Style
Source Wikipedia: Raffles Hotel
In the Other Atlases
- Also in Geography Atlas: Singapore, located there.
Sources
1. Wikipedia: Raffles Hotel
WikipediaInfobox, architectural style field
Architectural style: Colonial
Infobox, address field
1 Beach Road, Singapore 189673
History section, main building sentence
A few years later, a new main building was constructed on the site of the original beach house. Designed by architect Regent Alfred John Bidwell of Swan and Maclaren, it was completed in 1899.
Entity description and the lead of the Wikipedia article
Raffles Hotel is a luxury hotel at 1 Beach Road in Singapore, established by the Armenian Sarkies brothers in 1887 and named for the British colonial official Stamford Raffles, the founder of modern Singapore. Designed by the architect Regent Alfred John Bidwell of the firm Swan and Maclaren, the hotel grew from a ten-room bungalow into a landmark of colonial architecture, and in 1899 it became the first hotel in the region fitted with electric lighting. Renamed the Syonan Ryokan during the Japanese occupation of Singapore from 1942 to 1945, the hotel underwent a 160 million dollar restoration between 1989 and 1991 and a further renovation completed in 2019, and it was designated a National Monument of Singapore in 1987. Its Long Bar is credited as the birthplace of the Singapore Sling cocktail, invented there by the bartender Ngiam Tong Boon.
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